Gone are the days when you’d simply call friends and family to tell them you’re pregnant. Whether it’s a blackboard or a bun in the oven (I mean that literally), expectant parents are finding very cool and creative ways to share the big news.

Take a look…

Lincoln and Jalene Taylor chose swag over sweet when it came time to announce their long-awaited pregnancy. After months of infertility treatments and a miscarriage, the couple from North Salt Lake, Utah wanted to find the perfect way to share their happy news. Inspired by Toyota’s hilarious Swagger Wagon ad, “Jalincoln” teamed with their videographer friend Nathan Pickett to create their very own music video.

“We didn’t want to announce our pregnancy like everyone else,” Jalene tells TODAY. “We waited a long time for this baby, so we wanted the announcement to be awesome.”

Mission accomplished! The video has so far racked up more than 110,000 views and while not everyone is a fan – “This makes me cringe so hard. It is awful,” writes one YouTube user – the mom-to-be says that overall they’ve been overwhelmed by the response.

“Even people we haven’t seen since high school reached out to us and told us how awesome it was,” she says. “We felt really loved.”

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Sorry to say this but this video is nutty, and unnecessary. Me and my husband is also waiting for an baby, but our baby announcement will be more tasteful.

Marcy

it’s hilarious, if totally over the top. I love the part where she “pauses” the whole thing to go pee again.

Jlynn

It is funny and if it is something they wanted to do why fuss. Do not really see the issue. Never really did an announcement with either of mine and that is what worked for me.

Jennifer

I didn’t think it was funny or cute. Pretty stupid actually.

Cheyenne

not a fan of this but to each their own, i didnt make a big deal out of announcing my pregnancy the first people we told were of course our parents, i let my mom be the one to spread the news since she rarely gets to be the gossip of the family

Hannah

Looks like Jennifer has her big girl panties in a bunch.

Ashley

Its ok, not something I would do, but to each their own. I found out about my lil guy in the bathroom at work! First person I called was my best friend. I waited til I could get a chance later on that day to go tell my mom in person. I had to leave for less than an hr and when I came back the entire family knew. Everyone in Jersey, north Carolina, Florida, New York, and Puerto Rico! So im not the one that did the announcing, but I did post it to Facebook a week later for those who hadn’t heard. My ‘thunder’ was also stolen with the gender announcement. So if I ever have another one, im making it clear I run the announcements!

http://facebook.com/cherishablecreations Staci

I thought the video was cute but it should have stopped when she went to go pee. After tgat it just seemed too long for a pregnancy announcement.

Crystal

My initial reaction was that it was funny but a bit long. But I think it’s a great keepsake and the Taylor baby will probably get a kick out of how excited his/her parents were about having a baby.

beth

Silly but cute. It’s great that prospective parents are excited in an age when half of pregnancies are unintended.

http://momdiariesblog.wordpress.com/ Katie

I thought it was cute! I’d never do something like that, but it was definitely creative and it was nice that they wanted to share their enthusiasm like this with friends and family.

http://lubovkzhizn.blogspot.com Mama Russia

With our first we went home for my birthday and announced it. This time we sent everyone a picture with our birth year and a 4th pair with next year’s year. Everyone is very excited. We are very slow at progress in the Russian way (in our home town they give birth as teenager’s or just one after another) and all 8 of his siblings have been waiting 3 years for us to have another.

Shannon

Loved Toyota’s SwaggerWagon and I loved this! It was funny and cute.

Heather

It’s great!!! I really don’t get why people feel the need to rain on someone’s parade… if you don’t like it don’t comment. Who forced you to click and read/watch?!!!? Remember what we all learned as kids: if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Seriously. We are all free to announce our happy news as we want and are not required to run it by the rest of the world-or the judgey readers of BC. It never ceases to amaze me how people are so ready to be negative. Sad.

Congrats to this family; while I don’t know them at all, I’m happy that they are having a baby. It sounds like that is something they’ve been dreaming for for a while. Hooray for their happy news

Lynn

Becca and Jennifer hit it right on.

TCM

Fucking pathetic.Two mentally-defective Utah white kids thinking they are funny and cute being ghetto and stupid. Feel sorry for the little bastard having these douchebags as their retarded parents. A bunch of sad attention-whores with no talent let alone class.Keep your private affairs to yourselves you losers.

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